Poststructuralism and Security Reference library
Lene Hansen
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...683–710. Weber, C. (2006b) Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics, and Film . London: Routledge. Wendt, A. (1999) Social Theory of International Relations . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wight, C. (1999) Meta-Campbell: The Epistemological Problems of Perspectivism. Review of International Studies 25(2), 311–16. Williams, M.C. (2003) Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics. International Studies Quarterly 47(4), 511–31. Williams, M.C. (2005) What Is the National Interest? The Neoconservative Challenge in...
The Third Debate and Postpositivism Reference library
Thierry Balzacq and Stéphane J. Baele
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...:24). Lapid ( 1989 :249) concludes that “for many years the international relations discipline has had the dubious honor of being among the least self-reflexive of the Western social sciences.” In this context, (neo)liberal and (neo)realist approaches are accused of lacking “perspectivism,” that is, of failing to operate reflexively vis-à-vis their objects and modes of inquiry. They are seen as sharing the same questionable ontological and epistemological “unspoken presuppositions” ( Ashley and Walker 1990 :263), given that they consider their objects of study...
